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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201701-18">
  <title>Python: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Python, the worst of
    which could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">python</product>
  <announced>2017-01-10</announced>
  <revised count="2">2017-02-24</revised>
  <bug>531002</bug>
  <bug>585910</bug>
  <bug>585946</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-lang/python" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge" slot="2.7">2.7.12</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge" slot="3.4">3.4.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.4.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
      language.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Python. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted index
      file using Python’s dumbdbm module, possibly resulting in execution of
      arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.
    </p>
    
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted
      input stream using Python’s zipimporter module, possibly allowing
      attackers to cause unspecified impact.
    </p>
    
    <p>A man in the middle attacker could strip out the STARTTLS command
      without generating an exception on the Python SMTP client application,
      preventing the establishment of the TLS layer.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Python 2 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/python-2.7.12:2.7"
    </code>
    
    <p>All Python 3 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-lang/python-3.4.5:3.4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0772">CVE-2016-0772</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5636">CVE-2016-5636</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-03T06:13:03Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-24T10:28:53Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>